The shift to a new team and 7 secs or less combined with already stellar percentages makes it different circumstances. If he went from 23% to 43% I'd be all over it. Nash already had talent and skills.

The shift to a new team and 7 secs or less combined with already stellar percentages makes it different circumstances. If he went from 23% to 43% I'd be all over it. Nash already had talent and skills.

Definitely is great example of turning it up a n

again, not saying DD = Nash, but a 5% improvement in FG% would bring DD to .475. And if he improved his Rb the way Nash improved his assists, he could be grabbing 5.1 or so.

That's pretty finite criteria, so I'm not surprised nobody has even spent the time trying to find an example, but just using one of the above comparisons, Joe Johnson at 23 and 3 years experience, vs DD at 23 and 4 years experience (though lockout year makes it more like 3.5 at best):
FG% - JJ 43%, DD 44.5%
3P% - JJ 30.5%, DD 28.3%
FT% - JJ 75%, DD 83%

Not much to choose between those numbers. JJ played 40+ minutes that year, with Nash feeding him cherries. Comparing rebounds and assists per 36 minutes, JJ had a mere 0.4 rebounds more, and 1.5 assists more. 3 years later, JJ began his 5 year run of All-Star games.

The season after that JJ sky rocketed to 47% from 3-point territory. That's fucking oodles more than we even need Derozan improve to make this team better.

There's no reason to think he can't become a threat from behind the arc.

I'm not sure any convincing can be done based on past history or even on the merits of hardwork. This is just something that MU has to evaluate and make a decision on. What's great (for the 'against' side which I am also part of), is that Masai starts fresh. He will likely go through the same process as we would, from the objective side, by looking at past history, and by looking at career trajectory. The side that say "b-b-but he works really really hard" is hopefully non-existent because MU is not the one who signed him to that atrocious deal, nor the guy who drafted him.

To me it's a no-brainer that if you can find someone to take DeRozan and will give you in return something of value, then you do it.

...What's great ...is that Masai starts fresh. He will likely go through the same process as we would, from the objective side, by looking at past history, and by looking at career trajectory.....

The evidence to this point is that Masai is perfectly capable of objectively evaluating talent, both in the front office and on the floor. Go get 'em Masai. I'm just going to sit back and trust you for the next two years.